Talia’s passion for scent sports began 20 years ago when she trained her first dog for ANKC tracking. After learning about detection, she has gone on to train dogs for various roles including conservation work and truffle hunting. Talia is one of Victoria’s foundation judges for ANKC Scent Work and has trialled two of her own dogs successfully. Her GSP, Solly gained his Masters title in 2024. You might not have seen her around at many scent work trials recently as she and Solly are working towards certification as a Search and Rescue team. She still enjoys teaching Scent Work though and is looking forward to sharing her thoughts about markers and cues and where they fit in training for Scent Work.
Talia is business owner of Discover Canine
https://discovercanine.com.au/
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MEMBERS ONLY
SCENT WORK GAMES DAY
Venue ideas being explored
29th NOVEMBER 2025
More details soon
Club members had a great deal of fun and practice at our mock trial held in March 2025
Due to the mock trial being postponed - not once but twice - due to a Total Fire Ban being in place we tried for the mock trial one last time. Perseverance paid off and over 50 members attended with their dogs to spend a day learning together with searches prepared across 7 different classes from novice all the way up to ultimate scenarios being prepared by current judges, trainee judges and local instructors! Photos and memories to be added to online platforms soon!
An online talk for members-only presented by Angela Hervey-Tennyson which looked at the changes of behaviour that lead to that final indication when your dog works scent to source.
Angela has a wealth of knowledge in canine behaviour and professional experience in handling scent detection dogs and business owner of K9 NoseFun
Our Inaugural members only online event held on the 19th January 2025 was presented by Sonja Needs and was a great success with our members getting the chance to learn some great facts about the dogs olfactory system in the 'Scentsory Science Seminar'